I hope you are all celebrating International Jazz Day 2015 which happens to be today, and the inspiration behind this Throwback Thursday post! I have so many jazz records that are very personal to me, but one of my earliest favorites was with Frank Sinatra. Maybe it was because I was a youngster and...

Today’s Show Me Your Pedalboard entry comes from Matt from West Australia! Matt’s a bass player who’s got a modest, but unique board, filled with only the coolest boutique pedals! Let’s take a look at what Matt is working with: Matt’s signal starts off into a TC Electronics Polytune tuner, immediately followed by...

Today’s Show Me Your Pedalboard entry comes from David! David’s got a modest board with the bare necessities. Let’s take a look at what David is working with: There seems to be a trend of boards missing tuners lately, maybe it’s that they’re not featured in the picture for some reason. Regardless, it’s...

Time to get lethal with your tone! Today’s pedal review is of the Earthquaker Devices Sound Shank! I will say right now that the Sound Shank is razor sharp in its focus and brutal in its gain textures. I wanted to do a video on this pedal merely because its name got my attention, and the graphics...

Today’s Throwback Thursday is about taking advantage of second, or even third chances! It is festival season now that Coachella 2015 has come and gone, and that means a lot of us are headed to airports, into vans or on trains. But either way, festivals are our best chance to see bands come through...

Today’s Show Me Your Pedalboard comes from Andrew from Washington DC! Andrew’s rocking a very modest board that has a great homemade DIY aesthetic! Let’s take a look at what Andrew’s rocking: After what I’m hoping is a tuner, Andrew’s board starts off into an Earthquaker Devices Palisades Overdrive into a Black arts Tone...

Today’s Show Me Your Pedalboard entry comes from Kevin! Kevin’s got a very neatly organized board with plenty of straightforward effects and in his words, the “weird but inspiring stuff.” Let’s take a look at what Kevin is working with: First off, I have to say that I admire how cleanly organized this...

Every now and then I set up to shoot a video, not really knowing what to expect from the pedal I am going to feature. This week’s video of Noise Diet’s Bit Grinder is just that! A perfect example of expecting the unexpected! While I was on a Deltron 3030 Northwest tour, I was...

Today’s Show Me Your Pedalboard entry comes from Thomas from the Netherlands! Thomas is a bass player who plays pop/funk but but sometimes branches out into psychedelia and shoegaze and his board definitely accommodates his versatility. Let’s take a look at what Thomas is working with: Thomas rocks a 1977 Ibanez Silver Series Jazz...

Today’s Show Me Your Pedalboard comes from bass player August (who prefers to be called Augie)! Augie’s board has all the bass essentials with the inclusion of a few pedals that can get some really far out sounds. He also has one of the most color coordinated boards I’ve ever seen! Style points! Let’s...

It’s always exciting when Nick Reinhart comes through 5starr Sound Labs to demo pedals. Nick has such a unique approach to pedals that is very different from my own. He often utilizes a pedal in ways that may not immediately occur to me. In this week’s review, Nick came through with a couple of...

Today’s Show Me Your Pedalboard entry comes from Jean! Jean’s got a lot of cool newer stuff on his board, so let’s take a look at what Jean is working with: Here’s Jean’s signal chain in rapid fire: BOSS TU-3 Tuner: The ever present BOSS tuner. The TU-3 has a slight electronics upgrade over...